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Hallucinate

To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes.

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Comprehend 76% connected

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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Perceive 76% connected

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character,…

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Hallucination 74% connected

The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.

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Hallucination 74% connected

The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.

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Hallucinatory 74% connected

Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination.

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Hallucinatory 74% connected

Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination.

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Aberrate verb · 78% connection

To go astray; to diverge.

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Alienation noun · 78% connection

Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.

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Blunder verb · 78% connection

To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.

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Blundered imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Blunder

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Blunderer noun · 78% connection

One who is apt to blunder.

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Blundering p. pr. & vb. n. · 78% connection

of Blunder

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Bull verb · 78% connection

A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called,…

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Bullish adjective · 78% connection

Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder.

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Bungle noun · 78% connection

A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.

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Catathymia noun · 78% connection

A state in which mental processes are under the control of the emotions.; "The original idea of catathymia forwarded by Maier (1912),…

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Cognition noun · 78% connection

The processes used for thinking, remembering and understanding.

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Commitment noun · 78% connection

A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.

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Conversion disorder noun · 78% connection

a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no appare…

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Conversion hysteria noun · 78% connection

a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no appare…

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Conversion reaction noun · 78% connection

a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no appare…

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Cybernetics noun · 78% connection

(biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in…

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Faculty noun · 78% connection

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or ca…

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Fault verb · 78% connection

To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.

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